Posts Tagged ‘Prosecutions’
31.10.11 Former ATT President Charged With Tax Fraud
[caption id="attachment_501" align="alignleft" width="370" caption="Former ATT President"][/caption] Andrew Meeson, the former President of the Association of Taxation Technicians and three of his business associates who administered a pension scheme, have been charged with stealing £5million through a tax fraud ...
11.07.11 Solicitor Jailed For Corruption
A Henley-on-Thames based solicitor is serving a 16 month prison sentence for abusing his professional position. James Thorburn-Muirhead was sentenced on 29th June after a SOCA investigation revealed his links to a drug dealer, his involvement in the theft of clients’ monies and his failure to disclose information under the Suspicious ...
11.02.11 An accountant has been found guilty of tipping off a client under PoCA
An Accountant has been warned he will go to jail after being found guilty of tipping off a client about a police investigation. The stark message to Kishor Doshi, director of Sunderland firm Otax, came after he was convicted of an offence under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The jury of eight ...
02.07.10 Chartered accountant faces eight years behind bars
A London Chartered accountant faces eight years behind bars after being convicted of manipulating both his clients' and his own tax returns, pocketing £11m in income tax and VAT payments. Christos Charalambous (58) of Palmers Green, London, completed over 6,000 self assessment tax returns for clients which included fictitious expenses claims ...
22 April 2010 SOCA announce one of six most wanted arrested in Amsterdam
One of six most wanted arrested in Amsterdam The new Dutch Crimestoppers operation saw the arrest of its first target yesterday. James Vincent Muldoon, 30, of Liverpool, absconded from his trial for armed robbery in 2007 and was sentenced in his absence to 13 years in prison. He was believed to be on ...
31.03.10 HMRC Announce Penalties for non-registration
HMRC Announces important information for Money Service Businesses, High Value Dealers, Trust or Company Service Providers and Accountancy Service Providers who have failed to apply for Money Laundering Regulations Registration. HMRC announce that a new late registration penalties policy has been introduced for Money Service Businesses, (MSBs) High Value Dealers, (HVDs) ...
15.01.10 Hunslet Man Arrested for Money Laundering
A 35-year-old Hunslet man has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering as part of an investigation involving the City and Holbeck Proceeds of Crime Team and the Holbeck Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT). Police officers and police community support officers (PCSOs) from the NPT entered the unemployed man's home yesterday afternoon ...
16.09.09 Four arrested connection with a £9m mortgage fraud
Four men have been arrested by the City of London Police force in connection with a £9m mortgage fraud against a major insurance company. 40 police officers have been involved in the operation in the South-East of England which has led to a number of co-ordinated searches on four houses, the ...
14.09.09 HM Revenue and Customs officers arrested 21 people in raids in a multi million pound construction industry fraud.
The twenty one arrests, consisting of eighteen men and three women, were made covering areas as diverse as the West Midlands, Staffordshire, London and Greater Manchester. The suspects were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to ‘cheat the public revenue’ and ‘money laundering’ offences amounting to over £6 m. They were ...
08.09.09 Accountant jailed for eight years for tax fraud
John Warman who holds no qualifications to be an accountant, operated a sole practitioner practice dealing with the affairs of a number of clients. He conspired to steal £2.5m from HMRC was told by the Judge that he lived in a 'fantasy world' as he jailed him for eight years. ...
